cover image THE COLOR OF ABSENCE: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope

THE COLOR OF ABSENCE: 12 Stories About Loss and Hope

, . . Simon Pulse, $6.99 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-689-85667-9

"Addressing the emotional life of adolescents, the author of the Bunnicula books collects a dozen works (one of which he penned himself)," wrote PW. Walter Dean Myers's "Season's End" covers much more than the close of baseball season; in "Shoofly Pie," Naomi Shihab Nye explores the way humor and sadness live side by side; and Jacqueline Woodson and Chris Lynch collaborate on "The Rialto." Ages 12-up. (Jan.)